UPDATED 1:35 P.M. JAN. 15
As the University of Kansas aims to do more work with the U.S. Department of Defense, it is creating an entirely new office to boost the effort.
KU leaders on Wednesday announced the creation of the Office of National Defense Initiatives and added a new assistant vice chancellor position to its management ranks to oversee the project.
Mike Denning, who has served as KU’s director ...
It is impossible to know now, but maybe in Rob Blank’s mind he believed in the power of pairs.
He paired long black hair — later gray — with a long beard to match. He often paired literal rose-colored glasses with a stylish hat of a matching color. And then, of course, there were the pair of fingers. The index and the middle finger formed in the shape of a V — the universal sign for peace.
Has anyone ...
A little more than a year ago, Lawrence real estate agent John Esau was given a tall order — about five stories tall, actually: Convert the five-story 800 Lofts building in downtown Lawrence from an apartment complex to condos.
The owners of the building at Eighth and New Hampshire streets— Lawrence businessmen Doug Compton and Mike Treanor — were interested in whether there were enough people who would ...
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A flock of Jayhawks, so to speak, has delivered more than a half-million dollars in funding to a group of KU-connected start-up companies.
As we’ve reported, officials at KU Innovation Park have created a new “angel investor” network that brings together KU alumni and others with Jayhawk connections who are interested in providing early-stage funding to ...
Lawrence not only set a new record low for single-family home construction in 2024, it took a hammer and saw to the old record and demolished it.
The City of Lawrence issued just 57 single-family building permits during the last year, which was well below the previous low-water mark of 79 single-family building permits, set in 2022.
In other words, Lawrence broke the record low by nearly 30%.
The numbers ...
Many of you are probably familiar with the television program “MythBusters,” where a group of somewhat nerdy science aficionados disprove many myths — often by blowing something up.
Well, the folks at the U.S. Census Bureau can do the same thing, and usually use a lot less dynamite in the process.
New data from one of the Census Bureau’s most comprehensive reports — its five-year American Community ...
